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llio carolina watchman series salisbury n c thursday june 18 1887 no 34 some old people ,.' of the chesterljeto x h | r ii - has just died in the person . \;-. s:i|i!ironia pierce who was in j tear \\-~ hetsv averih of new preston was ii*l years of age on may '>. j till in kÂ«hx1 health witli all lier j - excellent preserved ii the sprvest om gentlemen of i rait midi is godfrey knight ; .- passed tin ee itury mark he .. â– lingh fond of sports and is still il singer ludiin chief seranos of san â– ! al i thought to he 123 years lest resident uf philadelphia itebecca applegate who is 104 if age ha has its cmtcjiari.in in the mr aruba douglas who [ ias ited her lolst birthday and i ' il ' ac i ve as l woman . f |, ,,) j,-r years she recites lines memory eighty-seven r iÂ«'o with n perfection of voice and â€¢ â€¢ â– - simply wonderful i o-eallei remedies fail i>r i : h remedy cures cntaiiing spicihc for liver disease sy8ipt08!s iwn fur pain in : -â€¢: jc:ii is diten mistaken sucr stom.iclj loss of a lu i mid vrater ni rtalulent-v and acid . raati ly rosiivu beadacho ijÂ«><i1 memory with .. . i;i failed to do ' li:iv ! irn nnc â€¢ -, : n thick yri np nj pji-s a tiry j ss lh urine is suul ii allowed to s!iÂ»:s li m regulator purely vegetable is -. â– n i â– â– â– i-'outh t arouse ... â€¢ > :â– . :â– â€¢ tilhj action it iris with k'r3ord.r.i'-y efficacy on th tiver e ys i and bov/els blkiitrla coivrl '. nr:;.!.ili-;s l m s hi !. lloatlavlte ( ,. t m ,, ,â€¢!...:, uiliousnesn ki.ln.-y a hvsmon .; luuu'ro m:i.i:.l depression culic t 7 millions â€¢ ! â– '^. is : â– Â« !. â– hs.a :' â– "*.;â€¢ d only genuine b z â– â– â– . . â– j h zeilin & co philadelphia pa jiedmont wagon j | made at hickory n 0 can't be beat . i where they ougllt t rigj : square at the fh3nt it was a hird fight but they have won it \ what people ay . and if vow want a â– quickly and buy " !; r cash v on time s u.isiniiv x ('. sept !-'. is^fi i â– â– ' i^ht t very li^ht t ivn wilson i the i nt jno i ' ' nsfl it nciir'y aii the time - rely in hauliny s.-i-.v on is l nd hiv not :â€¢â– .: for repairs i umk â– lvitir.,1 l <,| l . | )( . st i'lji â– ] ' ! ''' > â€¢ i'lf in the united states i i:i tli in is must excellent is mc-ii . i i'knell i tliom l^'in s vmsbl'htt n c . ail uttll 1 sso ]; ', * â€¢"' r 11 i b rij.'it rii jim a -' il'llluiiilt w:lu"!l h hicll sei vice and no put of it â€¢' ii iia ay stud coiidwiumt â– â– " la tn thiiijj lÂ«r repnire iiliin i iikm.v s u.isbl'hy x c se|jt i i 18s6 >'" 1 lÂ«'.!!_'l.t l>l j<Â»ll!l | ,â€ž' â– i ii iinlile krin pie i j i ii ivu used it protty miuli il lias prctved to lie i fir-t â– _' ibout it ii i i;iven 'â– !'â– i t ua.Â«i rerj uiivd no re t a w u.tox s.vi.r kitv x <â– . sept bill ! ; jlil i.r'tki a.'.-nt in i â– : i riiimlilf skein piedmont i ' n ;,.'\ -^'-- one ik.rso wa.siin i it ( kllsl lilt u.-,l ;,|. i ' â– i 'â€¢ i ii ii;v i mi ir iii u-a -| i .., i : i i w iiln n;r nil v the ol south an abie de n e of its gal ! lant and chivalrous men stinging reply to a writer whd would j trample oa the old to elavate the j new the jackson miss clarion of recent j date publishes aii article by 15 i ward ofwinonn mis which is i he ablest de fense yet made of the old south it i i ! follows : the white man of tee nzw south i the above is the somewhat attractive title of an article in the march number of the century magazinr over the signa ture of wilbur kisk tillett vanderbilt i university nashville tenn which merits attention not imply because it is ; a misrepresentation of history but that â– it emanate from a presumably represen i i tative man in a southern university the author is apparently skirmishing to j bring himself within the scope of the gal 1 ; which has recently given uch a graceful i i swell to the sails of mr h w grady i : unfortunately however the zeal <>â™¦' the i : vanderbilt professor is scarcely tempered ] ' with the vein of native loyally which i tinges through the eloquence 01 georgia's ! : popular editor while disclaiming any purpose to depreciate the chivalry the : hospitality the high sense of honor etc which characterized the southern gentlemen of the olden time he yet i placidly assumesand distinctly announces that the comparisons and contrasts in | stituted must be very unfavorable to the i white men of the old south he then lashes upon us the light of iil.s main proposition that it is the white mr.n of the south ; j more than the black that has been freed by the civil war 1 ' he speaks flippantly it the south as consuming the first de cade after the war in wearing the black j garb ol mourning for the lost cause and voicing their only feelings through fath er jlyan's mournful melodies he char acterizes what he is pleased to term the typical representative southern man be i lore the war as a dependent idler and | says they were little more than over seers of the blacks he then kindly in ] fi :â– :::.- us that everything which the new : ; south has done and is doing in the do j vi-lopment of diversified industries ui<d j material prosperity in education and literature iii morals and religion is duo to the \ emancipation of the white man of the south iroin the bondage of idleness j which is inseparable from the ownership of slaves he further assumes that the cotton crop of to-day though 30 per cent j larger than before tne war is raised on i less acreage which he claims i the re | suit of a higher stale of cultivation inei j dent to fiec white labor i there an in i telligeut white man in the south wiio be lieves that it average agricultural condi tion now will in any respect compare favorably with that before the war in ex j i ccllencc and thoroughness tlie fine breeds of cattle are everywhere ii ' planting the inferior breeds the raw 1 noiicd tiorse the scrub cow and razor j backed hogs are fast disappearing we j venture the assertion that five counties iii mississippi iu i860 could have furnish ed more fine blooded saddle harness and draft horses than can now be found i:i the entire state on southern state could then have furnished more fine hogs than now exist in the entire cotton belt j while a very few farm in the south are now stocked with small herd of fine cat tle yet under the old system thousands of piauti rs had supplied themselves with superior cattle for their own use that ag gregated more in numbers and value than the blooded stock of the same territory at present with a reckless indifference to evidence he swings the sweeping asser tion that all the manufacturing and min ing enterprises of t he south are the direct , and exclusive fruits of the white man's j deliverencc from the debilitating and be , numbing influence oi slavery this is entirely gratuitous as there is noshudow of proof that the south left undisturbed for the last quarter of a century would not : have broughl all these and various other interests to a higher plane of development th;\n they now occupy the cotton seed oil mill is emphasized as one of the gpeeilic results of the liberated energies ot the new south admit for the sake of argument only that the oil mill is the j peculiar product of the free south is the fact beyond question that its presence among us is an unalloyed blessing ? be j fore the evolutionary features of the un fettered southern mind culminated in the survival of the fittest the cotton planters returned their surplus seed to ihe soil with a reproductive value of 25 cent per bushel now the negro renters and many white farmers sell to the mills for s or v cents per bushel and the only additional return is the oil which comes back in the shape of armour's lard for which they pay ten cents per pound he would have us believe that the ma terial resources or thi south have been developed only under free labor and yet as far back as 1s2s mr thomas ii benton himself opposed to slavery said in the united stales senate that the south furnished the basis of the federal revenues the value of her ex ports up to that time being s00,000,000 that the north almost nothing he further said that four slave statesâ€”vir ginia the two carolinas and georgia â€” paid three-fourths of the expenses of sup porting the government while they re ceived nothing in return in the shape of government expenditures up to the j civil war new england exported next to i nothing yet managed to grow rich outof the abundant prosperity of the south this explains tlie significant remark ol mr lincoln if we let the south go where shall we get our revenues prof tillett in attempting to portray what he terms the blighting and de moralizing influence of slavery upon the minds morals aud energies of the old south is guilty of i he gross absurdity of attributing to the charactkb ji wcalth influences which belong only to its de-j jjree of extent the diameter of a man's j wealth has nothing to do with his habit or taste it i only the amount which he ' i i>ccesses and which l subject to tht d m.ind of his fancies and appetites thut | may qualify his physical mural or intel : icciual capacities ifthe wealth of the old south instead of being so largely in slaves had been invested in mines mills railroads ships stocks bunds etc it would have engendered an equal tea : deney to leisure and luxury no careful observer will probably deny that among the wealthy and fashionable classes at the north there is inure idleness and j extravagance more folly and arrogance more dissipation and vice and a more impassably barrier between j rich and poor than ever existed in the mosl opulent circle of slaveholders for j however aristocratic they may huvebeen '< they were always courteous and refined ! in the kurlli the tendency to divide so , ciety on financial lines has grown with j constantly increasing intensity for more j than a halfcentury until nowit is almost | delinitely established the very rich and ! very poor are as widely separated as ! dives and lazarus in the old south on i the contrary there were processes con stantly at work effecting a gradual and steady diffusion of wealth which pre served in a great measure the hoino geniety of societj promineni among these agencies were the matrimonial alliances so often contracted between the families of the rich and poor in fact it was the rule for the active intellectual ambitious young men from the poorer families to marry the daughters of wealthy planters instead ofattempt ing to restrain these alliances ihey were generally encouraged by wealthy parents with a view to preserving the physical and mental vigor of their families with out sacrificing their estates to employ a homely but impressive phrase brains and money were instantly combining to build up and preserve in the old south the finest society in the world to the exclusion of the twiu evils the mil lionaire and the tramp the tine moral and intellectual organization of southern children has heretofore been largely due to the fact that i heir mothers were exempt from the hardships of physical drudgery and the depressing effects of impending want the poorest man i:i the soetli supported h.s family with comparative east because of the gently rising grada tions in society and the uuivcsal linerali tyoflhe stronger toward the weaker how is it in those countries so long freed from the curse of slavery but where mechanical invention is pro j gressively increasing the congestion of wealth and stimulating luxurious living among the rich while n alarmingly swells the ranks of the hungry laborer the socialist and the pauper take massa chusetts the hub of free schools free 'â– labor and boasted intelligence us a fair representative the average expenses of laboring men who are the heads of families in massachusetts amounts to â– 67">t42 while their earnings average s-los.gs l:i other word the working mar falls short of a support for his family ! li).">.6 or â€¢'â– ;â– _' per cent how is this sup | plemjeuted it is wrung from the toil of the mother and children not through the i discharge of the ordinary domestic duties j of woman's sphere but in the wages mill ! one-third of the meagre support must be ! eked out by mother and tender children j in order to keep the wolf and sheriff from the door in the great slate of massachusetts the first to free her slaves and the last to surrender her traffic in them only one woruingman to 100 owns ! a house and 30,000 little children are the ' hirelings of the nabobs professor tillet furt ncr informs us that the new south is as much in advance of the old in morals and religion as in material pros perity this is very gratifying intelli gence in view of the fact that as to the rank and iile of the federal and the con federate armies the church membership i in the confederate army was l'o per cent the larger the same estimate would ap ply to the general officers and regimental and company commanders of the two armies statistics show that in some dis tricts in the larger northern cities with a population of 20,000 children there are sunday school accommodations for only 2,000 in some districts there isoniv one protestant church to o,~000 i;i others one to 10,000 one to 15.003 and many entire ly destitute of cnuacn privileges no wonder the police in chicago ar rest in one year 7,200 boys and girls for petty crimes what a mercy that these poor people have not been subjected for three-quarters of a century to the de moralizing curse of slavery " infidelity never reached the first stage of its germi nation in the old south the crowded houses which surge around robert a ingersoll from maine to kansas furnish their own comment we would be dis tinctly understood as offering none of these statements in defense of the moral right of slavery or as regretting its aboli tion neither would we desire to draw any damaging or invidious comparisons or contrasts between northern and south ern citizens of t!ii our common counr.y we are simply stating the facts of history in rebuttal of prof tiilett's unjust anil unwarranted charges r southern people arc addressing themselves to living issues with no disposition to revive dead ones except when their antecedents are as sailed within their own border by the teacher of their children now as to this intellectual inferiority of the old south the memory of which so wrings the compassionate soul of the amiable professor he ra.ikes the fatal admission that be ore the war the south had more bow in college than the north but begs the question by pleading that they only went to school because it was the thing to do a grave charge against the southern youth on which we challenge him to the proof here is the quality the sum and substance of hi.s testimony he supposes that of all the books writ ten by american authors 90 p't cent c mi from north of mason and i/ix.-.n line and then asks what is the answer to this discreditable fact ' slavery he reiterates the curse of gki very with its slothful and enervating influence rested like an incubus upon , the intellect of the white man of the south very well wo coneejj that the n^.th has written nearly u the works of fiction i)0 per cent of which are ; worthies and ~~> per ceut ure actually pernicious she has furnished a great | many possiiilv good school books a little j valuable history and a great deal of doubtful accuracy and questionable value â€¢ we admit all this and more we credit ' her with standard scientific and theologi cal productions of which the south has i been among her most appreciative studkxtb feeling and acknowledging a common pride in the merits and reputation of her | authors and vet we announce only what is susceptible of demonstration when we unhesitatingly declare that for more than 100 years the grand inarch of the american intellect has been projected from southern brains from the early days of the colonies two columns of physical and ideal forces have moved steadily from east to west across the con tinent divided mainly by the 38th or 39th line of latitude each animated by respec tive and peculiar inspirations and each com piemen tal to the other in the j northern division we have ever found a â€¢ sleepless restless ceasclrsh struggle for sectional local and individual supremacy ! [ marked at every step by the gerce con flict between the victims of want and the despotism of capital â€” a stern and native practicality born of indigenous necessity while along the parallels of the old south has roli : ed tiie deep and majestic tide of national [ thought national sentiment and national ! action the south has been the land of ent r prises of great pith and moment rather than the n-urscry of scribblers she lias made history for others to write and sell : sin has carved with the sword the path j way of the pen and made america the stronghold of the anglo-saxon race the first resolution declaring the right of the colonies to be free and independent : were introduced into a southern legisla ture by a soul hern man the first reso â– unions to the same effect were presented i in the colonial congress by another southern man and took form and con sistence in ; he declaration of inpepend i e;:<v under the matchless genius of still am ther southern num a southern man thk patriotic armies to victory and established the possibilities of the proudest nation on the earth a i southern man was prime mover of the convention that framed the constitution when the government was created its organic laws were still an unexplained book a pouderus oar in unskilled hands it was left for the greatest legal mind of the age a southern chief justice to an alyze and tamp upon it the construction which will bi accepted as long as the constitution is respected a southern man framed the ordinance for the organ ization and government f the great northwestern territory an instrument second in importance only to the consti tution of the united states a southern man was the author of the republican theory of popular theory of popular government which prevailed during the sixty years of our greatest prosperity peace atid happiness of the fifteen pres idents of the continental congress eight were from slave states from 1739 to is53 a period of sixty-four years embracing eleven administrations the slave slates furnished eight presidents whose term of service covered fifty-two years during the same time the free states furnished three presidents whose combined terms covered twelve years of the twelve vice presidents four were from slave states uunder these eleven administrations the slave states supplied fourteen secretaries of slate eleven sec retaries of war six secretaries of the treasury nine secretaries of the navy and eight postmaster generals of fifty-five residents pro tern of the senate thirty nine were from slave states of thirty-one speakers of the house twei.ty t/o were fiom slave slates of live chief justices two and the only two of great eminence were from lave states of twenty-nine attorney generals fourteen were from slave states of is.j public ministers to foreign countries ninety-nine were from slave states without going further into exhasutive details for which material is abundant and ovekwhelmin'g we affirm without fear of decent denial that along the lines of these fifty-two years are ranged all the broad and lofty conceptions of statesmanship all the bold and fruitful enterprises all the grand and comprehensive achievements from which have evolved the pride the power and the glory of the american jcople the war of lslj was scarcely less impor tant in its results than the war of inde pendence the one left us an embryonic nation the other developed a full grown â– lower wiping out the insults of twenty live years planting our flag upon the ocean and dissolving every doubt in the minds of foreign powers that we were a government tie tacto and entitled to a place in the front ranks of nations thi war we are told by a northern historian was a southern measure for the protec tion of northern interests yet it was inaugurated and pressed to a triumphant issue under the administration of a south ern slave-holder supported by a solid south in the face of the almo.-t solid opposition of the free states who were the master spirits of that struggle such men as clay calhoun monroe grundy lowudes and crawford while only five senators north of the del aware voted to sustain it in the gloom iest and mo.st critical days of the conflict : new england who writes all the books was holding a secession convention de nouncing the war and infringing with the i emissaries of great britain as a conse i quence when england sent her powerful < fleet to invest our ports she exempted i the ports of new england from the oper i ations of the blockade when the suc cess of the war bad established its \ opu < larity in the free states a southern man , formulated the financial policy which ex ] tinguisued its immense debt in less than i twenty years under these same sloth 1 fill and demoralizing auspices of slavery i the great indian wars were fought their < magnificent country i opened to white settlement the savages removed and measures adopt ed for their civilization florida was â€¢ acquired from spain ami from france ft th.it vast domain tne lousiaua territory | \ comprising more ih.ui 1 000,000 squqfv l miles greater in ext nt and richer in re sourced than the whole territory of the then existing united state and ji:iviii us the sole ownership of the mississippi river from its source to the gulf this one achievement conceived and accom plished by a southern president through the supreme skill and courage ofn south ern diplomatist overshadows in its stu pendous proportions outweighs in the vast ness of its results every national measure presented by northern states manship and secured by northern enter prise since the landing at 1'lymoth hock it was this far-reaching stroke of southern diplomacy which elicited from the great napolean the prophetic remark that the acquisi tion of \. iiisiana forever strengthens the power of the united states and gives to england a maritime rival that will some day humble her pride the war for the independence of texas and the adminis tration of its government by its southern presidents was another manifestation of the slothful energies of these depend ent idlers and overseers the war with mexico and the annexation of texas were assailed by the free states with the same vehement opposition which they had presented to the last war with england but a southern president again held the helm the pluck and patriotism of the gentlemen idlers once more prevailed and columbia took into her embrace the young giant of whom it has been graphically said if texas was laid on the face o europe with its head resting on the mountains of norway one palm covering london and the other warsaw it would stretch across the kingdou of denmark across the em pire of germany and austria across northern italy and bathe its feet in the mediterranean it is capable of pro ducing 12.000,000 bales of cotton and still have a cattle range lei'i larger than the whole of new york this war prosecu ted by the enervated non-progressive overseers gathered into the national domain also the territory of new mex ico itself larger than the kingdom of great britain and ireland extended the national boundary to the pacific and opened to the world the golden gates 1 of california ir tillett iu his haste to elevate the new south by degrading the old forgets that most of the representative nun of the new south her senators con gressmen cabinet oilieers governors judges jurists leading journalists college professors eminent divines and success ful men of business in every line were born and educated under ihu ' ; curse of slavery there is no new south the term is a misnomer and a myth it is simply a phrase costume in which old prejudices masquerade through modern prints seeking to pervert the education of southern children into the coa viction that their ancestors if not criminals were little more than a race <\\' " idlers blunderers blockheads and failures but the present or future generations will never find reason to be ashamed of the brain work of the old south the literature left us by wash ington jefferson madison monroe cal houn stephens and jefferson davis will stand as monuments of wisdom and models of classic lore when the mountains of literary lumber accumulated by professional book-mak ers shall have crumbled into the dust of ages in all the departments of govern ment civil and military in law literature and seance while the south has boasted no great army of writers whose wits are the price of bread she has furnished the minds productive of the grandest results to the country and the world when a prolific littleanimal vain of her numerous progeny twitted the lioness for nursing only one the noble beast replied only one but it is a lion it is the character and the magnitude of thought and not the abundance of thinking that cut the mighty aad everlasting channels where low the living streams of mind and pro gress the naval and military cadets from the south have had no equals as a das the culture and intelligence in the ranks of the confederate army were unsurpassed by that of any of the great armies of the world hence the exalted esprit de corps which so often rendered the confederate soldiers more than equal to an odds of throe to one in the splendid columns of the federal army where is there an example of modern seamanship that will compare with the daring aud brilliant cruise of admiral seinme who with a sin gle ship swept from the seas the com merce of a great nation who was it that mapped the geography of the seas explained their secret phenomena blazed out on the trackless ocean the shortest and safest highways for the commerce of the world by his wind and current charts and his sailing direction sav ing to the united states millions of dol lars annually on outgoing tonnage alone matthew f maury a southern man to the core and by common consent of all nations aeeorde i the proud title of philosopher of the seas where is there a parallel to auduborn the naturalist and ornithologist of the world chloroform that has robbed the surgeon's knife of all its terrors was fir.it applied by a southern physician the j two greatest eras in surgery for the las two centuries in fact two of the greatest in surgical history were marked by two southern physicians ephraim mcdowell of kentucscj an i j marion sims of ala bama in their respective branches the j surgery of the whole enlightened world recognizes and follows the leadership if the tainous mt n ii i hill was the only man in anae/ica wli j evir made 1,0 x x - jdo as the direct product of his brain i i j - j dependent of investment or speculation in addition t j win h he gave fifteen uf iks i best years t > active public service the only approximation to hio record â€¢ was that of another southern lawyer ' judah p benjamin who went to kug , land after the meridian of life and became i the leading jurist in the land of great ! lawyers having uii his docket ai one ' lime half the appeal cases in the king i rluui djc mis order of men spring from a race-of idlers whose aspirations ind energies have been emasculated by i he curse of slavery^'^-btihneklory ! wearies wiiii-ssffisferatiou and we on'y ' ~ u _ r^".:t th".u sjuth-tu parents should looi i o'ttio educatioii of thtir boy aud act i v.tii iiu l-iivuji pectien wheu friuuda of . lu .; .- i â– â€¢ ' â– !â€¢. : â€¢ ' " " ir i : ,: r '^ ' in thn shape of endowments fur southern universities while children are to he taught to forjret history and to blush for the character mid deeds of their an : cestora b f wakd i wincnn miss god eles the old-fashioned giils ims]ki cros";rove of diivcnport in delivered a notable sermon in that city ' i last sunday on the immortal tenden i cics of the time through the breaking : down of safeguards which onc pro j tected girls and young women as a ; i model tor the rising generation the : j bis'jop pictured the old fashioned girl , of thirty years ago in the following i words she was a little girl until she was 2 3 â– â– i years old and she helped her mother in [ household duties she had her hours ! of play ami enjoyed herself to the full { 1 est extent she never said to her t i mother i can't i dont want to for i obedience was to her a cherished virtue ! she arose in the morning when called j and we dont suppose she had her hair done up in papar and crimping pins or ! banged over the forehead she did not grow into a yonng lady and talk about her beau before she was hi her teens and she did not read dime novels nor | was she fancying a hero in every plow ! boy she met the old-fashioned girl i was modest in her demeanor and she never talked or used by-words sin did not langh at ld people nor make fun of cripples she had respect for her elders and was not above listening to j words of counsel from those older than i herself she did not know as much as her mother nor did she think herjudg ment was as good as that of her grand mother she did not go to parties by ; the time she was 10 years old and stay j till after midnight dancing with any : chance young man who happened to be present she went to bed in season said her prayers slept a sleep of inno | cenee and rose in the morning happy j and capable of giving happiness and ' now it there be an old fashioned girl in the world to-lay may heaven bless and keep her and raise up others like her omaha lier an old gentleman who had provoked the hostility of a fashionable lady whom he had known in boyhood was asked by his wife what he had done to incur the lady's displeasure nothing at all replied the innocent old man on the contrary i was cordial to her and spoke of the time when i used to draw her to school on a go-cari nearly i half a century atio 1 anothr steamship collision london 1 me ii â€” the ship ilnml-nrn ' collided mi morning v i ii ih piritinri i tern is t lie la i r Â« a n siii'_r t he channel hie titll went to the l.iitli.ni 1i ip!:iin and tour ft heis wire drou him tliu acci dent linppuneil in a dir.se !Â»>_'. heroic lives at home the heroism of private life the slow unchronicled martyrdoms of the heart who shall remember greater than any knightly dn-gon slayer is the man who overcomes an nnhoiy passion sets his fool upon it and stands serene and strong in virtue grander than zen n!>i i is the woman who struggles with a love that wrongs another or degrade her own soul ami conquers th young man ardent and tender who turns in>n the love of women and buries deep in his heart the sweet in stinet of paternity to devote himself to the cnv and support of aged parents oran unfortunate sister and whose long life was sacrificed in manly cheer fulness and majestic spirit is a hero of the purest type the type of charle lamb i have known but two such the young woman who absolutely stays at home with father and mother in the old home while brothers and sister go forth to happy homes of their own who cheerfully lavs on tho altar of filial dutv the costliest of hu man sacrifices of loving and being loved she is a heroine i have known many sum the husband who goea home from every days routine and the perplexing cares of business with eheerfnl unile and a loving word to his invalid wife who brings not against her grievons sin of a long sickness and reproaches her not for the cost of discomfort thereof who sees in her languid eyessomethinc dearer than girlish laughter in the sad face and faded cheeks that blossom into smiles and even blushes at his coming something loviier than the oldtime spring roses he is a hero i think i know one swell the wife who bears her part in the burden of life â€” even though it be the larger part bravely cheerfully never dreaming that she is a heroine much less a martyr who beard with the faults of i husband not altogether con genial with loving patience and a large charity and with noble decision hiding them from the world who makes no confidant and asks no confidence who refrains from brooding over shortcom ings in sympathy and sentiment and from seeking perilous affinities who does not build high-tradegy on the sor rows of the inevitable or feel an earth quake in every family jar who sees her self indissolubly and eternally in their children she the wife in very truth in the inward as well as in the outward is a heroine though rather an unfash ionable type â€” grace greenwood rood company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue ii s ii %\ < Â« u ely's cn-mii bulm opened a } ass i<;e in one iiosi i il t hr ugh \\ hich i had not tm-athed in three years subdued iu jiifl.'-.iiuitiou in my head and throat tin result of catarrh colonel o m nkilliay owcgo n v sc adv eczema eradicated ontlcmcti h is 0u yon to rÂ»v that i in i it cntir j *â€¢ il of rr-r-tna if l.ivl.ij taken swilt'h j*|xti!ic i liav boen trouhktl with i v.rv little m inj fac iiv is^t i>r'nr al th beginniiil of colil weathi-r last all it mule a li^tit a|>pw:iranrr hut yr wli mil nai<nrverretnrne(l 8 s.s no doubt broke it tip at least it put my yynemjn cikki condition and i cut well it also bvneuu 1 -! my if greatly in ca*c of sick hradoche and modo a perfect curu f a brt-aliiiik out on my hnl three year o r j daughter lost m imer watkinfvillc ga feb 13 hs6 1:ev jamks v it mor.hi treatise oa bloou and skin disease mailed free tut swin sptanc co t)r.-.wir 1 a'japti ca aug 1's 1&sg ly fjpei fllil u fill ihiag^^y i htit littfl i i hi : i 1 lywl'ww n.aiifml to i â– >â– y a/lb v^-Â»i u ''" 'â– "'">â€¢â€¢â€¢Â« ut>:Â«i.uiia au orueka c^rvxrit tiÂ«n'Â«olari-Â«pru->rtii.ufi(m 3b st lf h"Â«o'jal7oia istoblÂ«edtbÂ«lrÂ»l yl!ihil h Â» .. < ij â– jag r sb'aiadf uaz ok â– 'â– â– â– .. i-hltikinciilalinj prop ccojimai dactii i co v-*\.^Â®c2sbs^^5yÂ»i 1 i'-ka:,-.r t>l,ujiiÂ»m crÂ«mmÂ«p a kadic3lc.-.roforncrrr.asljooi];t-,0.-~an â– t2*'Â»i^"lÂ«a c v : -'--"= n>ai.fÂ»l princi^.vi bjiirm eis a-ijicx yrrte'l forlmsht years in r t.n7 l^fikiiia5 lr "' rr>r ;'? f -".'' vr l " ul d ' ; v thtouunl thoas^r.lc-.^i thoy r.hsolut r > 5 p-Â«ct;.;crelt vilfl ' a ?- rt ''" 1 '' Â° h'msr r.nrmiim ijnorwi tb i"rortanclfcilmÂ»nltp:mn(rthftnrlviÂ«orr.n health bc^r^ca c.iccf altiid npidl gt.oi boi urtucth tad tmjtt treatkÂ£ht;-*:_j ucatx p two Â»*.* urn it tslvl>rarkaÂ«>^frki'Â«tt''h]11^5"dj'aninh1pt i 56 n tenth street bt.loijib ka ruptured person's c<in r>avo fres trial ot cur appliance aek tor termct 25:ly cash against credit farmers look to your interest ons d;Â»l!nr in oasli or barter at j rowan davis store mill bridge rowaa county vill buy more goods than one dollar and lioy cents on u credit with those store which o on raortgajrr if you don't believe it try one year and tm what you will avu curuc and examine my excellent line of spring goods and especially the prices just received dry and fancy good lct hÂ«it pioce goods ilard ware c i am now iu receipt of the beÂ«t line of groceries ever in stocv consisting of syrap coffee bucon rolltr mill flour nÂ«Â«p orleans raw supar jind many other rhinos not mentioned frish garden bced fur 1837 give me a call kctpectfully j rowan davis

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llio carolina watchman series salisbury n c thursday june 18 1887 no 34 some old people ,.' of the chesterljeto x h | r ii - has just died in the person . \;-. s:i|i!ironia pierce who was in j tear \\-~ hetsv averih of new preston was ii*l years of age on may '>. j till in kÂ«hx1 health witli all lier j - excellent preserved ii the sprvest om gentlemen of i rait midi is godfrey knight ; .- passed tin ee itury mark he .. â– lingh fond of sports and is still il singer ludiin chief seranos of san â– ! al i thought to he 123 years lest resident uf philadelphia itebecca applegate who is 104 if age ha has its cmtcjiari.in in the mr aruba douglas who [ ias ited her lolst birthday and i ' il ' ac i ve as l woman . f |, ,,) j,-r years she recites lines memory eighty-seven r iÂ«'o with n perfection of voice and â€¢ â€¢ â– - simply wonderful i o-eallei remedies fail i>r i : h remedy cures cntaiiing spicihc for liver disease sy8ipt08!s iwn fur pain in : -â€¢: jc:ii is diten mistaken sucr stom.iclj loss of a lu i mid vrater ni rtalulent-v and acid . raati ly rosiivu beadacho ijÂ«> :â– . :â– â€¢ tilhj action it iris with k'r3ord.r.i'-y efficacy on th tiver e ys i and bov/els blkiitrla coivrl '. nr:;.!.ili-;s l m s hi !. lloatlavlte ( ,. t m ,, ,â€¢!...:, uiliousnesn ki.ln.-y a hvsmon .; luuu'ro m:i.i:.l depression culic t 7 millions â€¢ ! â– '^. is : â– Â« !. â– hs.a :' â– "*.;â€¢ d only genuine b z â– â– â– . . â– j h zeilin & co philadelphia pa jiedmont wagon j | made at hickory n 0 can't be beat . i where they ougllt t rigj : square at the fh3nt it was a hird fight but they have won it \ what people ay . and if vow want a â– quickly and buy " !; r cash v on time s u.isiniiv x ('. sept !-'. is^fi i â– â– ' i^ht t very li^ht t ivn wilson i the i nt jno i ' ' nsfl it nciir'y aii the time - rely in hauliny s.-i-.v on is l nd hiv not :â€¢â– .: for repairs i umk â– lvitir.,1 l â€¢ i'lf in the united states i i:i tli in is must excellent is mc-ii . i i'knell i tliom l^'in s vmsbl'htt n c . ail uttll 1 sso ]; ', * â€¢"' r 11 i b rij.'it rii jim a -' il'llluiiilt w:lu"!l h hicll sei vice and no put of it â€¢' ii iia ay stud coiidwiumt â– â– " la tn thiiijj lÂ«r repnire iiliin i iikm.v s u.isbl'hy x c se|jt i i 18s6 >'" 1 lÂ«'.!!_'l.t l>l jâ™¦' the i : vanderbilt professor is scarcely tempered ] ' with the vein of native loyally which i tinges through the eloquence 01 georgia's ! : popular editor while disclaiming any purpose to depreciate the chivalry the : hospitality the high sense of honor etc which characterized the southern gentlemen of the olden time he yet i placidly assumesand distinctly announces that the comparisons and contrasts in | stituted must be very unfavorable to the i white men of the old south he then lashes upon us the light of iil.s main proposition that it is the white mr.n of the south ; j more than the black that has been freed by the civil war 1 ' he speaks flippantly it the south as consuming the first de cade after the war in wearing the black j garb ol mourning for the lost cause and voicing their only feelings through fath er jlyan's mournful melodies he char acterizes what he is pleased to term the typical representative southern man be i lore the war as a dependent idler and | says they were little more than over seers of the blacks he then kindly in ] fi :â– :::.- us that everything which the new : ; south has done and is doing in the do j vi-lopment of diversified industries uiccesses and which l subject to tht d m.ind of his fancies and appetites thut | may qualify his physical mural or intel : icciual capacities ifthe wealth of the old south instead of being so largely in slaves had been invested in mines mills railroads ships stocks bunds etc it would have engendered an equal tea : deney to leisure and luxury no careful observer will probably deny that among the wealthy and fashionable classes at the north there is inure idleness and j extravagance more folly and arrogance more dissipation and vice and a more impassably barrier between j rich and poor than ever existed in the mosl opulent circle of slaveholders for j however aristocratic they may huvebeen '< they were always courteous and refined ! in the kurlli the tendency to divide so , ciety on financial lines has grown with j constantly increasing intensity for more j than a halfcentury until nowit is almost | delinitely established the very rich and ! very poor are as widely separated as ! dives and lazarus in the old south on i the contrary there were processes con stantly at work effecting a gradual and steady diffusion of wealth which pre served in a great measure the hoino geniety of societj promineni among these agencies were the matrimonial alliances so often contracted between the families of the rich and poor in fact it was the rule for the active intellectual ambitious young men from the poorer families to marry the daughters of wealthy planters instead ofattempt ing to restrain these alliances ihey were generally encouraged by wealthy parents with a view to preserving the physical and mental vigor of their families with out sacrificing their estates to employ a homely but impressive phrase brains and money were instantly combining to build up and preserve in the old south the finest society in the world to the exclusion of the twiu evils the mil lionaire and the tramp the tine moral and intellectual organization of southern children has heretofore been largely due to the fact that i heir mothers were exempt from the hardships of physical drudgery and the depressing effects of impending want the poorest man i:i the soetli supported h.s family with comparative east because of the gently rising grada tions in society and the uuivcsal linerali tyoflhe stronger toward the weaker how is it in those countries so long freed from the curse of slavery but where mechanical invention is pro j gressively increasing the congestion of wealth and stimulating luxurious living among the rich while n alarmingly swells the ranks of the hungry laborer the socialist and the pauper take massa chusetts the hub of free schools free 'â– labor and boasted intelligence us a fair representative the average expenses of laboring men who are the heads of families in massachusetts amounts to â– 67">t42 while their earnings average s-los.gs l:i other word the working mar falls short of a support for his family ! li).">.6 or â€¢'â– ;â– _' per cent how is this sup | plemjeuted it is wrung from the toil of the mother and children not through the i discharge of the ordinary domestic duties j of woman's sphere but in the wages mill ! one-third of the meagre support must be ! eked out by mother and tender children j in order to keep the wolf and sheriff from the door in the great slate of massachusetts the first to free her slaves and the last to surrender her traffic in them only one woruingman to 100 owns ! a house and 30,000 little children are the ' hirelings of the nabobs professor tillet furt ncr informs us that the new south is as much in advance of the old in morals and religion as in material pros perity this is very gratifying intelli gence in view of the fact that as to the rank and iile of the federal and the con federate armies the church membership i in the confederate army was l'o per cent the larger the same estimate would ap ply to the general officers and regimental and company commanders of the two armies statistics show that in some dis tricts in the larger northern cities with a population of 20,000 children there are sunday school accommodations for only 2,000 in some districts there isoniv one protestant church to o,~000 i;i others one to 10,000 one to 15.003 and many entire ly destitute of cnuacn privileges no wonder the police in chicago ar rest in one year 7,200 boys and girls for petty crimes what a mercy that these poor people have not been subjected for three-quarters of a century to the de moralizing curse of slavery " infidelity never reached the first stage of its germi nation in the old south the crowded houses which surge around robert a ingersoll from maine to kansas furnish their own comment we would be dis tinctly understood as offering none of these statements in defense of the moral right of slavery or as regretting its aboli tion neither would we desire to draw any damaging or invidious comparisons or contrasts between northern and south ern citizens of t!ii our common counr.y we are simply stating the facts of history in rebuttal of prof tiilett's unjust anil unwarranted charges r southern people arc addressing themselves to living issues with no disposition to revive dead ones except when their antecedents are as sailed within their own border by the teacher of their children now as to this intellectual inferiority of the old south the memory of which so wrings the compassionate soul of the amiable professor he ra.ikes the fatal admission that be ore the war the south had more bow in college than the north but begs the question by pleading that they only went to school because it was the thing to do a grave charge against the southern youth on which we challenge him to the proof here is the quality the sum and substance of hi.s testimony he supposes that of all the books writ ten by american authors 90 p't cent c mi from north of mason and i/ix.-.n line and then asks what is the answer to this discreditable fact ' slavery he reiterates the curse of gki very with its slothful and enervating influence rested like an incubus upon , the intellect of the white man of the south very well wo coneejj that the n^.th has written nearly u the works of fiction i)0 per cent of which are ; worthies and ~~> per ceut ure actually pernicious she has furnished a great | many possiiilv good school books a little j valuable history and a great deal of doubtful accuracy and questionable value â€¢ we admit all this and more we credit ' her with standard scientific and theologi cal productions of which the south has i been among her most appreciative studkxtb feeling and acknowledging a common pride in the merits and reputation of her | authors and vet we announce only what is susceptible of demonstration when we unhesitatingly declare that for more than 100 years the grand inarch of the american intellect has been projected from southern brains from the early days of the colonies two columns of physical and ideal forces have moved steadily from east to west across the con tinent divided mainly by the 38th or 39th line of latitude each animated by respec tive and peculiar inspirations and each com piemen tal to the other in the j northern division we have ever found a â€¢ sleepless restless ceasclrsh struggle for sectional local and individual supremacy ! [ marked at every step by the gerce con flict between the victims of want and the despotism of capital â€” a stern and native practicality born of indigenous necessity while along the parallels of the old south has roli : ed tiie deep and majestic tide of national [ thought national sentiment and national ! action the south has been the land of ent r prises of great pith and moment rather than the n-urscry of scribblers she lias made history for others to write and sell : sin has carved with the sword the path j way of the pen and made america the stronghold of the anglo-saxon race the first resolution declaring the right of the colonies to be free and independent : were introduced into a southern legisla ture by a soul hern man the first reso â– unions to the same effect were presented i in the colonial congress by another southern man and took form and con sistence in ; he declaration of inpepend i e;: active public service the only approximation to hio record â€¢ was that of another southern lawyer ' judah p benjamin who went to kug , land after the meridian of life and became i the leading jurist in the land of great ! lawyers having uii his docket ai one ' lime half the appeal cases in the king i rluui djc mis order of men spring from a race-of idlers whose aspirations ind energies have been emasculated by i he curse of slavery^'^-btihneklory ! wearies wiiii-ssffisferatiou and we on'y ' ~ u _ r^".:t th".u sjuth-tu parents should looi i o'ttio educatioii of thtir boy aud act i v.tii iiu l-iivuji pectien wheu friuuda of . lu .; .- i â– â€¢ ' â– !â€¢. : â€¢ ' " " ir i : ,: r '^ ' in thn shape of endowments fur southern universities while children are to he taught to forjret history and to blush for the character mid deeds of their an : cestora b f wakd i wincnn miss god eles the old-fashioned giils ims]ki cros";rove of diivcnport in delivered a notable sermon in that city ' i last sunday on the immortal tenden i cics of the time through the breaking : down of safeguards which onc pro j tected girls and young women as a ; i model tor the rising generation the : j bis'jop pictured the old fashioned girl , of thirty years ago in the following i words she was a little girl until she was 2 3 â– â– i years old and she helped her mother in [ household duties she had her hours ! of play ami enjoyed herself to the full { 1 est extent she never said to her t i mother i can't i dont want to for i obedience was to her a cherished virtue ! she arose in the morning when called j and we dont suppose she had her hair done up in papar and crimping pins or ! banged over the forehead she did not grow into a yonng lady and talk about her beau before she was hi her teens and she did not read dime novels nor | was she fancying a hero in every plow ! boy she met the old-fashioned girl i was modest in her demeanor and she never talked or used by-words sin did not langh at ld people nor make fun of cripples she had respect for her elders and was not above listening to j words of counsel from those older than i herself she did not know as much as her mother nor did she think herjudg ment was as good as that of her grand mother she did not go to parties by ; the time she was 10 years old and stay j till after midnight dancing with any : chance young man who happened to be present she went to bed in season said her prayers slept a sleep of inno | cenee and rose in the morning happy j and capable of giving happiness and ' now it there be an old fashioned girl in the world to-lay may heaven bless and keep her and raise up others like her omaha lier an old gentleman who had provoked the hostility of a fashionable lady whom he had known in boyhood was asked by his wife what he had done to incur the lady's displeasure nothing at all replied the innocent old man on the contrary i was cordial to her and spoke of the time when i used to draw her to school on a go-cari nearly i half a century atio 1 anothr steamship collision london 1 me ii â€” the ship ilnml-nrn ' collided mi morning v i ii ih piritinri i tern is t lie la i r Â« a n siii'_r t he channel hie titll went to the l.iitli.ni 1i ip!:iin and tour ft heis wire drou him tliu acci dent linppuneil in a dir.se !Â»>_'. heroic lives at home the heroism of private life the slow unchronicled martyrdoms of the heart who shall remember greater than any knightly dn-gon slayer is the man who overcomes an nnhoiy passion sets his fool upon it and stands serene and strong in virtue grander than zen n!>i i is the woman who struggles with a love that wrongs another or degrade her own soul ami conquers th young man ardent and tender who turns in>n the love of women and buries deep in his heart the sweet in stinet of paternity to devote himself to the cnv and support of aged parents oran unfortunate sister and whose long life was sacrificed in manly cheer fulness and majestic spirit is a hero of the purest type the type of charle lamb i have known but two such the young woman who absolutely stays at home with father and mother in the old home while brothers and sister go forth to happy homes of their own who cheerfully lavs on tho altar of filial dutv the costliest of hu man sacrifices of loving and being loved she is a heroine i have known many sum the husband who goea home from every days routine and the perplexing cares of business with eheerfnl unile and a loving word to his invalid wife who brings not against her grievons sin of a long sickness and reproaches her not for the cost of discomfort thereof who sees in her languid eyessomethinc dearer than girlish laughter in the sad face and faded cheeks that blossom into smiles and even blushes at his coming something loviier than the oldtime spring roses he is a hero i think i know one swell the wife who bears her part in the burden of life â€” even though it be the larger part bravely cheerfully never dreaming that she is a heroine much less a martyr who beard with the faults of i husband not altogether con genial with loving patience and a large charity and with noble decision hiding them from the world who makes no confidant and asks no confidence who refrains from brooding over shortcom ings in sympathy and sentiment and from seeking perilous affinities who does not build high-tradegy on the sor rows of the inevitable or feel an earth quake in every family jar who sees her self indissolubly and eternally in their children she the wife in very truth in the inward as well as in the outward is a heroine though rather an unfash ionable type â€” grace greenwood rood company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue ii s ii %\ < Â« u ely's cn-mii bulm opened a } ass ir'nr al th beginniiil of colil weathi-r last all it mule a li^tit a|>pw:iranrr hut yr wli mil naiâ– y a/lb v^-Â»i u ''" 'â– "'">â€¢â€¢â€¢Â« ut>:Â«i.uiia au orueka c^rvxrit tiÂ«n'Â«olari-Â«pru->rtii.ufi(m 3b st lf h"Â«o'jal7oia istoblÂ«edtbÂ«lrÂ»l yl!ihil h Â» .. < ij â– jag r sb'aiadf uaz ok â– 'â– â– â– .. i-hltikinciilalinj prop ccojimai dactii i co v-*\.^Â®c2sbs^^5yÂ»i 1 i'-ka:,-.r t>l,ujiiÂ»m crÂ«mmÂ«p a kadic3lc.-.roforncrrr.asljooi];t-,0.-~an â– t2*'Â»i^"lÂ«a c v : -'--"= n>ai.fÂ»l princi^.vi bjiirm eis a-ijicx yrrte'l forlmsht years in r t.n7 l^fikiiia5 lr "' rr>r ;'? f -".'' vr l " ul d ' ; v thtouunl thoas^r.lc-.^i thoy r.hsolut r > 5 p-Â«ct;.;crelt vilfl ' a ?- rt ''" 1 '' Â° h'msr r.nrmiim ijnorwi tb i"rortanclfcilmÂ»nltp:mn(rthftnrlviÂ«orr.n health bc^r^ca c.iccf altiid npidl gt.oi boi urtucth tad tmjtt treatkÂ£ht;-*:_j ucatx p two Â»*.* urn it tslvl>rarkaÂ«>^frki'Â«tt''h]11^5"dj'aninh1pt i 56 n tenth street bt.loijib ka ruptured person's cavo fres trial ot cur appliance aek tor termct 25:ly cash against credit farmers look to your interest ons d;Â»l!nr in oasli or barter at j rowan davis store mill bridge rowaa county vill buy more goods than one dollar and lioy cents on u credit with those store which o on raortgajrr if you don't believe it try one year and tm what you will avu curuc and examine my excellent line of spring goods and especially the prices just received dry and fancy good lct hÂ«it pioce goods ilard ware c i am now iu receipt of the beÂ«t line of groceries ever in stocv consisting of syrap coffee bucon rolltr mill flour nÂ«Â«p orleans raw supar jind many other rhinos not mentioned frish garden bced fur 1837 give me a call kctpectfully j rowan davis